Re:How many people did it take to build the Great Pyramid?
by pvg on Friday May 29, 2020 @12:58AM
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I think of the cathedrals, temples, mosques, etc. that have been built all over the world, where the people who started the work knew they wouldn't live to see it finished, but that didn't dissuade them.
I wonder whether that's not really more the exception rather than the rule - some famous cathedrals just took a long time. But lots of huge projects were completed in one or two decades or less - the pyramids, the Coliseum, the Taj Mahal, the Pantheon, Hagia Sophia, etc.
I wonder whether that's not really more the exception rather than the rule - some famous cathedrals just took a long time. But lots of huge projects were completed in one or two decades or less - the pyramids, the Coliseum, the Taj Mahal, the Pantheon, Hagia Sophia, etc.